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Case 4. No Smoking Allowed - On the Job or Off In 2005, Weyco, a benefits management company in Michigan, took an unusual step: it fired all employees who were smokers, even if they had never lit up on the job. Howard Weyers, president and founder of the privately held company, believed in promoting healthy lifestyles both at his own company and those of his clients. "I spent all my life working with young men, honing them mentally and physically to a high performance," the 70-year old former college football coach explained. "I think that's what we need to do in the workplace." In late 2003, the company had announced that it would no longer hire smokers. To assist its employees who used tobacco, the company offered smoking cessation programs and paid for medication and acupuncture. It also hired a full-time specialist to advise all employees on diet and nutrition and subsidized their health club memberships. Smokers were given 15 months to kick the habit. By the deadline, 20 employees had succeeded in doing so; the 4 had not were fired. Weyco employees were of mixed opinion about the tobacco-free policy. One employee who gave up cigarettes commented, "I had to choose between whether I wanted to keep my job and whether I wanted to keep smoking. To me it was a no-brainer." But another, who left the company rather than quit smoking, derided the invasion of privacy. "You feel like you have no rights," she said. "It had to do with my privacy in my own home." Weyco's decision to prohibit smoking off the job as well as in the workplace was unusual. But by the mid-2000s, most U.S. employers-some acting voluntarily and some because they were forced to by local and state antismoking laws-had banned smoking on the job or restricted it to a few separate areas. Employers cited several reasons for adopting antismoking rules. Secondhand smoke-smoke emitted from a lit cigarette, cigar, or pipe, or exhaled by a smoker-caused nearly 50,000 nonsmoker deaths in